Aside from telling recruits that belonging to the unit was a path to U.S. citizenship, Deng also urged them to pay him cash for higher military rank, according to prosecutors. He also allegedly provided them with fake documents and phony military identification cards…

He was charged with theft by false pretenses, manufacturing deceptive government documents and counterfeit of an official government seal.

Har! PT Barnum always got it right. There’s a sucker born every minute.